La Résidence D’auteurs Littérature, Territorialité et Médiations Culturelles

Although less known than “artistic,” fine arts residences that have remained a vital element of advanced visual training and education for centuries, literary residences are neither new nor rare. In a more or less recent past, writers have frequently benefited from this type of financial and/ or logistic support. Bisenius-Penin’s book starts with a useful reminder of the long-standing tradition, as well as brief typology of who (which public or private sponsor) was offering what type of residency (short/long, solitary/collective, etc.) to whom (which type of writer). The starting point of this study is the observation that in France, quite surprisingly perhaps, the residency system has for several decades tended to turn into a key dimension of literary life and cultural policy in a broad sense. More and more supporting public and private bodies are choosing the residence formula to shape their support for writing and reading, while a rapidly...